Toronto Pattern Calendar Week | Come Upwards Up To My Room 2017

Totem Design Co.

 The 14th installment of CUTMR (Come Up To My Room) will accept house during Toronto Design Week starting this calendar week (Thursday, Jan xix through to Jan 22, 2017).

Nicole Beno

Come Up to My Room (located on four floors of site-specific installations at the Gladstone Hotel inward Toronto) was conceived inward 2004 past times Christina Zeidler as well as Pamila Matharu every bit a vehicle for experimentation as well as interaction inside the fields of fine art as well as design. Acting every bit counterpoint to the Interior Design Show (IDS) as well as giving ascension to the to a greater extent than recent Toronto Design Offsite Festival (TO DO), CUTMR has since kicking the bucket a cornerstone of the Toronto choice pattern scene. Over the years, CUTMR has featured the operate of hundreds of artists as well as designers from Canada as well as abroad, as well as continuously challenged participants to force their everyday occupation past times offering a blank sail upon which to explore novel themes as well as ways of working.

The CUTMR 2017 exhibition is called Transplant:

Our human relationship alongside the footing as well as alongside those roughly us is informed as well as affected past times geopolitics, media, as well as our digital social interactions. Ideas, knowledge, as well as civilization filtered as well as expressed through these exchanges evolve ane time transmitted as well as transferred from ane house as well as to another. Through this human activeness of transplantation, art, media, as well as civilization converge, diverge, as well as reemerge into novel as well as unique collective entities. But volition these novel ideas, concepts, as well as experiences live on disruptive or volition they acquiesce to their novel environment. Through our dealings alongside the fast evolving environs surrounding us nosotros are left working to define our house inward the chaos. The physical as well as conceptual human activeness of transplantation is a phenomenon to live on explored past times designers as well as artists.

In CUTMR 2017, ideas as well as concepts collide alongside objects as well as infinite resulting inward the physical manifestation of unique interpretations of the notion of transplantation.

2017 Featured Artists
1:1 Collaborative; 302collective; Kaitlyn Bourden; Bruno Billio + Joseph Clement; Jeffrey Chiu; Grove Collective; RSID Year End Show Committee; Toronto Design Offsite Festival; Amanda Gresik; Deena Jamokha + Kaya Kim; Simon Johns; Tara Krebs; Totem Design Co.; Patrick Li; Rana Malik; Rey Midax, Oasis Skateboard Factory (OSF); Laura Peturson; Jennie Suddick + Anna Rose; Marian Wihak; OCAD U Student Gallery curated past times Alisa Maria Wronski

Trying out layouts for our #fibrepixelwall nosotros installed at @gladstonehotel today! It's similar #lightbright alongside carpet poms. #Art that is #interactive, nosotros encourage people to motility the #fibrepixels roughly as well as do their ain patterns! Head to the Gladstone Hotel to encounter the finished #installation during @todesignoffsite this week! #workinprogress #totemloves #rugdesign #textiles #rugs #fibrepixel #artinstallation #interiordesign #art #interiordesignweek #todotoronto #todo2017 #fibrepomwall #wovenspace #rugdesign #rugs #bespoke #customdesign #toronto #designweek #iteractiveart #contemporaryart #industrialdesign

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As it was, installed inward the studio - forthwith on it's agency to #toronto. These invasive reeds are business office of the landscape along the #missisquoiriver that borders the nation at the studio. The tabular array is made from dark ash, felled, milled as well as dried inward the area. The rock is from the river's banks. This is the Missisquoi Alcove for #cutmr2017 @gladstonehotel #canadiandesign #woodsvscity #simonjohnsdesign #contemporaryfurniture #contemporarydesign #todo17 #todesignoffsite2017

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Let's showtime this affair alongside a #BANG #comeuptomyroom2017 #CUTMR2017 The #QueerArmy awaits @gladstonehotel

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Gladstone Hotel's Come Up to My Room 2017


—THURS, JAN 19: 6-8PM
—FRI, JAN 20: 11AM - 10PM
(after 6pm, entry is subject on capacity - online ticket holders who brand it afterward this fourth dimension may non instruct inward if venue is already full)
—SAT, JAN 21: 11AM - 10PM + Opening Reception 7-10PM
(after 6pm, entry is subject on capacity - online ticket holders who brand it afterward this fourth dimension may non instruct inward if venue is already full)
—SUN, JAN 22: 11AM - 5PM

Gladstone Hotel

1214 Queen Street West

Toronto, Ontario M6J1J6